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A prayer to catch your breath by Max Lucado.

God designed time for rest to be taken daily and weekly. He told

Moses and the Israelites, six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work,

so that your ox and your donkey may rest and so that the slave born

and your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.

Exodus 2312. This was a command.

rest. Once a week let the system reboot. Once a week let the system reboot.

Once a week let the entire household slow down, the Israelite who violated this law paid for the sin with his or her life.

Today, the death penalty is still in effect, but it gradually comes from overwork, stress, and anxiety.

The Bible doesn't see rest as a sign of weakness or laziness, but as a mark of reverence.

To observe a Sabbath day of rest is to announce,

God knows what I need more than I do. If he says to rest, I will rest.

And, as we do, our bodies and minds are refreshed.

Never has rest been more important.

We move at too fast a pace and our adrenaline spigots seldom shut off.

Racing for late night flights and adding early morning meetings were stretched beyond our limits.

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